Twin-belt continuous caster with containment and cooling of the exiting cast product for enabling high-speed casting of molten-center product

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In continuously casting molten metal into cast product by a twin-belt machine, it is desirable to achieve dramatic increases in speed (linear feet per minute) at which cast product exits the machine particularly in, installations where steel cast product is intended to feed a downstream regular rolling mill (as distinct from a planetary mill) operating in tandem with the twin-belt caster. Such high-speed casting produces product with a relatively thin shell and molten interior and the shell tends to bulge, outwardly due to metallostatic head pressure of the molten center. A number of cooperative features enable high-speed twin-belt casting: (1), Each casting belt is slidably supported …